Continue Reading 95 Degrees Each summer my Beloved vanishes into the Northern wilderness, paddling his solo canoe, in calm and quietude, persisting on what the REI…
Continue Reading 100 Degrees Heat is above us, within us, around us and seemingly here to stay for the next weeks. Since there are too many…
Continue Reading It’s Hot With the current heatwave I have the impression nobody is up for anything, including reading. Save my review for a cool or rainy…
Continue Reading Repeat Performance Today I am recycling a post from 2 years ago today, featuring two British writers. The reasons are various: on the pragmatic…
Continue Reading Poems to Read Poems to Read is an Anthology edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz, the folks who gave us the Favorite Poem Project. It…
Continue Reading and every one members one of another – Romans 12:5 The quotation in today’s title is the epigraph of Olivia Laing’s 2016 book: The Lonely City – Adventures in the Art of…
Continue Reading In the end we always arrive at the place where we are expected. “Strange though it may seem to anyone unaware of the importance of the marital bed in the efficient workings of public administration,…
Continue Reading Mind Wandering Hard to write when it’s hot, the weekend is looming, and vacation is not quite around the corner but beckoning from the…
Continue Reading Spotting Spot Many argue such a thing as an “educated eye” exists and makes for being a better eye witness, a better referee, a…
